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Title The politics of Panem : challenging genres / edited by Sean P. Connors, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Published Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)
Series Critical literacy teaching series: challenging authors and genre ; volume 6
Critical literacy teaching series, challenging authors and genre ; v. 6.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Challenging the Politics of Text Complexity -- NAVIGATING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW ART -- THE HUNGER GAMES AND THE ISSUE OF TEXT COMPLEXITY -- THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY: CHALLENGING GENRES -- REFERENCES -- PART ONE: All How You're Perceived: Deconstructing Adolescence in Panem -- 1. SOME WALKS YOU HAVE TO TAKE ALONE: Ideology, ntertextuality, and the Fall of the Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy -- ANTI-WAR IDEOLOGIES IN THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY -- DYSTOPIC INTERTEXTUALITY
CLASSICAL CONNECTIONSJULIUS CAESAR, JUVENAL, AND THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE -- IDEOLOGEMES OF POWER AND TRAUMA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2. WORSE GAMES TO PLAY?: Deconstructing Resolution in The Hunger Games -- INTRODUCTION: BEGINNING AT THE END -- DECONSTRUCTION AND THE HUNGER GAMES -- GOOD AND SAFE?: SIGNIFYING CHILDHOOD IN RUE'S MEADOW -- NIGHTMARES OF MUTTS AND LOST CHILDREN: SIGNIFYING TRAUMA -- REAL, NOT REAL, OR SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN?: THE RETURN TO THE MEADOW -- CODA -- REFERENCES
3. HUNGERING FOR MIDDLE GROUND: Binaries of Self in Young Adult DystopiaBRIDGING DIVIDES CONSTRUCTED AND EMBODIED SELF -- KATNISS EVERDEEN PRODUCT OF CULTURAL CONSTRAINT -- PROACTIVE PROTAGONISTS AND PEET'S PURITY OF SELF -- EMBODIED CONSTRUCTION ADDING GENDER TO THE MIX -- CONCLUSION: MORE THAN A STRONG FEMALE AND SENSITIVE MALE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO: “I Have a Kind of Power I Never Knew I Possessed: What Philosophy Tells Us about Life in Panem -- 4. THE THREE FACES OF EVIL: A Philosophic Reading of The Hunger Games
SO UNLIKE PEOPLE: EVIL AS IGNORANCEDESTROYING THINGS IS EASIER THAN MAKING THEM -- HOW FREAKISH THEY LOOK -- AT LEAST YOU TWO HAVE DECENT MANNERS: EVIL AS BANALITY -- TO LOOK INTO THE CONFUSING MESS OF LIFE AND SEE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE -- I NO LONGER FEEL ANY ALLEGIANCE TO THESE MONSTERS CALLED HUMAN BEINGS -- I'M TIRED OF BEING A PIECE IN THEIR GAMES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5. I WAS WATCHING YOU, MOCKINGJAY: Surveillance, Tactics, and the Limits of Panopticism
READING LITERATURE THROUGH THE LENS OF PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISMDISCIPLINARY POWER AND THE PANOPTIC PRINCIPLE -- TACTICS AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE -- I STEP OUT OF LINE AND WE'RE ALL DEAD: SOVEREIGN POWER AND THE SPECTACLE OF TERROR -- THERE ARE ALWAYS EYES FOR HIRE: DISCIPLINARY POWER AND THE GAZE -- I HAVE A KIND OF POWER I NEVER KNEW I POSSESSED: VISIBILITY AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE -- CONCLUSION: EMPOWERING READERS TO BECOME AGENTS FOR CHANGE -- REFERENCES -- 6. EXPLOITING THE GAPS IN THE FENCE: Power, Agency, and Rebellion in The Hunger Games
Summary The Hunger Games trilogy is a popular culture success. Embraced by adults as well as adolescents, Suzanne Collins?s bestselling books have inspired an equally popular film franchise. But what, if anything, can reading the Hunger Games tell us about what it means to be human in the world today? What complex social and political issues does the trilogy invite readers to explore? Does it merely entertain, or does it also instruct? Bringing together scholars in literacy education and the humanities, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres examines how the Hunger Games books and films, when approached from the standpoint of theory, can challenge readers and viewers intellectually. At the same time, by subjecting Collins?s trilogy to literary criticism, this collection of essays challenges its complexity as an example of dystopian literature for adolescents. How can applying philosophic frameworks such as those attributable to Socrates and Foucault to the Hunger Games trilogy deepen our appreciation for the issues it raises? What, if anything, can we learn from considering fan responses to the Hunger Games? How might adapting the trilogy for film complicate its ability to engage in sharp-edged social criticism? By exploring these and other questions, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres invites teachers, students, and fans of the Hunger Games to consider how Collins?s trilogy, as a representative of young adult dystopian fiction, functions as a complex narrative. In doing so, it highlights questions and issues that lend themselves to critical exploration in secondary and college classrooms
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Subject Collins, Suzanne -- Criticism and interpretation
Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games (Series)
SUBJECT Collins, Suzanne fast
Hunger Games (Series : Collins, Suzanne) fast
Subject Dystopias in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Dystopias in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Connors, Sean P., editor
ISBN 9789462098060
9462098069